Farm & Food

​We've gone from wet to dry in the last month, according to Ormstown weatherman Peter Finlayson. In the last month, the Chateauguay Valley had only received 33 mm of precipitation (1.25"), which is half of the normal. And there's no relief in sight as the forecast for the next week is dry and warm. We'll take the heat since it has remained relatively cool in the first half of May, with the average temperature inching up by only 1.2°C last week to 10.7°C, while the normal is 13.5°C. Peter also started his heat unit count on May 7th given that about 85% of the corn in the area is in ground, some of it just beginning to sprout. The total for the first week was 103 heat units.

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